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Events Calendar

Please note that this calendar only contains library programs. For room availability, please contact the appropriate library directly.

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Time Items
All day
 
9:00am
9:00am to 12:00pm
Making Justice: Juvenile Shelter Home
Bubbler
 
9:30am
9:30am to 10:15am
Aging with Awareness

Aging with Awareness

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Thursday, May 25, 9:30am to 10:15am

Is this group for you? Are you over the age of 50? Do you want to increase your awareness of the natural process of aging, and feel more open hearted and happier?

To be aware simply means to know. Even though knowing (awareness) is always available to us, we often get lost. Most often we are too caught up in our thoughts, thinking about the past, planning for the future, and moving quickly through the present moment. Getting lost is simply a habit of mind.

Join facilitator Vicki Goodman-Strenski in practicing awareness. Vicki has worked with humans of all ages over the past thirty years, supporting their curiosity and their willingness to be more accepting and less anxious. As we all know, aging is not for the feint of heart!

 

Attend all three sessions to explore three different aspects of awareness, or come when you can. 

Thursdays, 9:30-10:15 am

May 18

May 25

June 1

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
 
10:00am
10:00am to 12:00pm
Free Mending

Free Mending

Study Room 211
Thursday, May 25, 10:00am to 12:00pm

We’re here to mend anything you need for the colder months, including clothing, coats, and any other fabric-related repairs, except for zippers. Sewers from the Sewing Machine Project will be available to mend your things for free every Thursday of the month.

Study Room 211
 
10:00am to 10:30am
Move-Nourish-Connect

Move-Nourish-Connect

Youth Program Room
Thursday, May 25, 10:00am to 10:30am

Move, Nourish, Connect: These are important concepts that tend to fall by the wayside for parents during the first years of a little one's life. 

This program is designed for both parent/caregiver and child (ages birth - 5) to learn to move naturally, nourish their bodies and connect with one another and others in attendance.

Bring yourself and your little one and move, nourish and connect with your community.

Youth Program Room
 
11:00am
11:00am to 3:00pm
Dane Core Rental Assistance / African Center for Community Dev. (ACCD)

Dane Core Rental Assistance / African Center for Community Dev. (ACCD)

Study Room 109
Thursday, May 25, 11:00am to 3:00pm

In partnership with Madison Public Library, the African Center for Community Development provides assistance* with applications for services, jobs, and benefits for community members.    We provide help for people navigating application processes and filling out forms required for housing, immigration, food, health, and other community services.  Please drop by at the hours and locations listed below to request assistance with your applications.  For questions about the program, please call African Center at (608) 957-5623 or (608) 294-0066. More info at https://africancentermadison.org/housing-support/ (link is external)

*Neither The African Center for Community Development nor Madison Public Library can provide legal assistance or advice.  We are not able to fill out applications on your behalf, or assess program eligibility.  

Library hours:

Hawthorne Library: Mondays, 11:00-6:00
Lakeview Library: Tuesdays, 11:00-5:00
Pinney Library: Thursdays, 11:00-3:00

Study Room 109
 
2:00pm
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence: bernie & zuzu

Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence: bernie & zuzu

Studio
Thursday, May 25, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Color Play: Making the world a little more rainbow

bernie & zuzu's residence term at Pinney Library Studio: February 2023 - October 2023

bernie & zuzu's in-Studio work time: Thursdays from 12-2 pm

bernie & zuzu's drop-in open Studio time: Thursdays from 2-4 pm at Pinney Library

bernie & zuzu wants you to come make the world a little more rainbow! Bernie invites the Madison community to explore color at weekly open studios and drop-in art making sessions that focus on color, shape, and mark-making in abstraction through the mediums of drawing, collage, block printing, stenciling, screen printing and painting. Throughout the residency, Bernie will invite the community to assist her with making the art studio into an installation and exhibition space that explodes with color: a rainbow room! Come play and be part of the fun!

bernie & zuzu is named for Bernie Witzack (she/her, a human) who is the creative force behind bernie & zuzu, and the extraordinary zuzu (a cat) who takes care of the business side of things. At bernie & zuzu, we create handmade, hand-painted, and screen-printed goods in small batches. We specialize in unique, one-of-a-kind art, home goods, accessories and prints with an emphasis on bright, bold color and playful shapes. bernie & zuzu is run out of a studio in the Madison Enterprise Center and we screen print at Polka Press, Madison’s local printmaking collective. We hope our artwork and goods inspire tiny moments of beauty, wonder and joy. 

Bernie studied Studio Art at Beloit College and has been making and exhibiting her art ever since. She earned an MFA in Fine Art & Design from the University of Michigan in 2013, focusing on improvisational drawing and painting. She then went on to study graphic design at Madison College, falling in love with screen printing along the way. She was working full time as a graphic designer and pursuing her art on the side when the pandemic hit in spring 2020. She left the design field in spring 2021 to focus on her art full time, launching bernie & zuzu in fall of 2021.

You can find bernie & zuzu’s goods at the Dane County Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings from April-October, at Little Luxuries, Hatch Art House, and Communication Madison. They also vend at local art markets such as The Eastside Winter Market, Femmestival, The Crafty Fair and the Madison Maker Markets. bernie & zuzu have an online shop at www.bernieandzuzu.com

Studio
 
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Missing (feature fillm)

Missing (feature fillm)

Community Room
Thursday, May 25, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Missing

Directed by Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick. Performances by Tim Griffin, Ava Zaria Lee, Nia Long, Kimberly Cheng, Storm Reid.  Columbia Pictures. 2023.  111 min. Rated PG-13.  Drama /  Thriller.

From the minds behind Searching comes Missing, a thrilling roller-coaster mystery that makes you wonder how well you know those closest to you. When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers...and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Community Room
 
2:30pm
2:45pm to 3:30pm
Dream Bus at Vera Court Neighborhood Center
614 Vera Ct
 
3:00pm
3:00pm to 6:00pm
Try It Out: Metro Redesign Trip-Planning

Try It Out: Metro Redesign Trip-Planning

*In Hawthorne Library
Thursday, May 25, 3:00pm to 6:00pm

Have you wondered what your bus rides will look like after the Metro Redesign? Interested in learning more about Metro Transit buses and what it’s like to ride? Drop-in any time between 3-6pm and get personalized help from Metro employees in planning your future trips!

*In Hawthorne Library
 
3:30pm
3:45pm to 4:15pm
Dream Bus at Mendota Elementary
4002 School Rd
 
4:30pm
4:30pm to 7:00pm
It Takes A Village After-School Enrichment

It Takes A Village After-School Enrichment

*In Goodman South Madison Library
Thursday, May 25, 4:30pm to 7:00pm

It Takes A Village After-School Enrichment sessions are created in an effort to promote community, and a safe place for youth patron between 12 and 18 years old. We will supply various activities from crafts, board games and electronic games also.

*In Goodman South Madison Library
 
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Dream Bus at Kennedy Heights Community Center
199 Kennedy Heights
 
5:00pm
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Managing Your Finances in Today's Economy

Managing Your Finances in Today's Economy

Meeting Room 115
Thursday, May 25, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

We've all had unexpected expenses and emergencies. This seminar will help you prepare for any unplanned events that have an effect on your finances.

This seminar covers:

  • Ways to stretch your paycheck further
  • Ways to manage credit and debt
  • Financial planning/advising resources
  • Other community resources
  • Managing a reduction in income

 

Presented by UW Credit Union.

Meeting Room 115
 
6:00pm
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Chapters Teen Writing Club

Chapters Teen Writing Club

Studio
Thursday, May 25, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Gathers most Thursday evenings! Middle and high school students can meet other aspiring authors, bounce ideas off one another, share their stories, and feel the creativity flow! Writing club is led by local author Carole Madrzak.

Studio
 
6:00pm to 7:30pm
WisCon 2023 Guest of Honor readings with Rivers Solomon and Martha Wells

WisCon 2023 Guest of Honor readings with Rivers Solomon and Martha Wells

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
Thursday, May 25, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Join us for a Thursday evening reception featuring readings from WisCon 2023 Guests of Honor, Rivers Solomon and Martha Wells!

This event is free and open to the public--you do not need to be registered for WisCon to attend.

This program will include live American Sign Language translation.

Books by the Guests of Honor will be available for purchase courtesy of A Room of One's Own book store.

 

About Rivers Solomon:

Rivers Solomon (fae/fer or they/them) is a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade who resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent and writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home.

Solomon’s debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017, Akashic Books), won a Firecracker award and was shortlisted for the Locus, Lambda, Otherwise, Astounding, and Hurston/Wright awards, as well as being named a best book of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bustle, and others. Faer second book, The Deep (2019, Saga Press), is based on the Hugo finalist song of the same name by the experimental hip-hop group clipping, headed by Daveed Diggs. The Deep won a Lambda Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, and Hugo Awards. Their third novel, Sorrowland (2021, MCD Books) was described by Tor.com as “a genre-bending work of gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled history of racism in America and the marginalization of society’s undesirables,” and The Guardian said, “It’s about escape, self-acceptance and queer love. It’s about genocide and the exploitation of black bodies, self-delusion and endemic corruption, motherhood and inheritance.”

Faer short work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Best American Short Stories, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy, Guernica, and Black Warrior Review. Solomon also collaborated with Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang, and Yoon Ha Lee on the serial novel The Vela.

Find their books on LINKcat

About Martha Wells:

Martha Wells (she/her) has been writing speculative fiction since 1993, and in that time has won Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards. Her work has also been nominated for the British Science Fiction Award and the Philip K. Dick Award, and she has been a USA Today Bestseller and a New York Times Bestseller. She has written for Star Wars, Magic: The Gathering, and Stargate: Atlantis, as well as writing short fiction, non-fiction, and YA novels.

Wells is best known for her Ile-Rien, The Books of the Raksura, and, most recently The Murderbot Diaries series. The Books of the Raksura won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series, while the novellas, short story, and novel in The Murderbot Diaries have been shortlisted or won Alex, Locus, Nebula, BSFA, and Hugo Awards, culminating in 2021 with the novel Network Effect winning the Nebula and Hugo awards for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel while The Murderbot Diaries as a whole won the Hugo Award for Best Series.

Wells’s powerful and believable worldbuilding and fictional societies are assisted by her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology, and she has written nonfiction about the women of Doctor Who; the ups and downs of a long career; and magic systems, the environment, and non-humans. She lives in the USA in Texas with her husband.

Find her books on LINKcat

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
 
6:00pm to 6:30pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance

One-on-One Computer Assistance

Study Room 1
Thursday, May 25, 6:00pm to 6:30pm

Need help with basic computer or Internet skills? Looking for assistance downloading library eBooks and audiobooks? We offer free one-on-one sessions on Thursday evenings!

Reservations required. Register online, in person, or call Lakeview Library at 608-246-4547.

Study Room 1
 
6:30pm
6:30pm to 7:00pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance

One-on-One Computer Assistance

Study Room 1
Thursday, May 25, 6:30pm to 7:00pm

Need help with basic computer or Internet skills? Looking for assistance downloading library eBooks and audiobooks? We offer free one-on-one sessions on Thursday evenings!

Reservations required. Register online, in person, or call Lakeview Library at 608-246-4547.

Study Room 1